The Kerbin in cockpit television system!

[Arugela]

I've finally gotten a picture of it. Every time I tried up till now it vanished before taking a shot. It has eluded me now for months since they started to slip and turn them off a few seconds after I went into IVA mode to watch them and I initially noticed it... And they slowly got sloppier and sloppier about it until I finally could get proof!!!

This is what they have been doing in the cockpits while were not able to fully see. And finally explains why they act so funny in mission! The secret is out!!!

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Now the question is what are they seeing on those fuzzy screens. Is it fuzzy because they just turned cut the feed? Or can they make out some weird TV feed or whatnot in all that fuzz.....? And what are they watching that entertains them so!?

Apparently kerbals have very high tech. Those are some pretty interesting floating displays. I wonder what method they use to produce it...? Is this what we will be like when we finally obtain such technology? Edited November 21, 2015 by Arugela

[Streetwind]

For those not in the know: those things are actually the cameras that generate the portrait views you see at the bottom right while in regular flight mode... in fact, you can think of them as the very windows you "look through" at them from the outside. One of the last couple devnotes talked about that hacky implementation ;)

[jarmund]

Boring answer:
That's the KIA screen. Not entirely sure how it's done from a programatical point of view, but if I remember correctly from reading the devnotes and the like, the KIA screen is the default portrait, and if the kerbal is alive, the head is rendered over it. The portrait is actually "filmed" with a "camera" in the cockpit, so therefore each passenger needs to have a KIA screen associated with him/her.
Feeble attempt at being funny:
They're watching the tube when they're supposed to be working, hence why it disappears when you look at them. And they're easy to entertain, so static is their favourite show.

[Arugela]

[quote name='jarmund']Boring answer:

And they're easy to entertain, so static is their favourite show.[/QUOTE]

I think I like that part. It would be funny if this sort of stuff could be made official parts of the kerbal world too! >< These glitches make good potential game story elements.